* 1902 – Meyer Lansky, Russian-American gangster ( d. 1983 )

** Meyer Lansky, Russian-born mobster ( d. 1983 )

* Meyer Lansky ( 1902 – 1983 ), Jewish gangster ; financial wizard of the National Crime Syndicate

Detective escorting Meyer Lansky.

As a representative for his associates Meyer Lansky and Charlie Luciano, Siegel is in California to muscle control of betting parlors away from Los Angeles gangster Jack Dragna.

He acquires funding from head mobster Meyer Lansky ( Ben Kingsley ) and other New York mobsters who approve the deal for $ 1 million.

His wife, Esta, is full of marital frustration ; Daughter Millicent feels abandoned on her birthday ; Associate Meyer Lansky is conflicted between wanting to fund Ben's Casino-Hotel and worrying about Ben's obsession with wanting to kill Mussolini.

Upset about the costs, the fact that the casino is a failure, and that $ 2 million of the budget is unaccounted for, Meyer Lansky asks Bugsy to meet him in Los Angeles.

* Ben Kingsley as Meyer Lansky

Gambino also became involved with the " Young Turks ," a group of Americanized Italian and Jewish mobsters in New York which included Frank " Prime Minister " Costello, Albert " The Executioner " Anastasia, Frank Scalice, Settimo Accardi, Gaetano " Tommy Three-Finger Brown " Lucchese, Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Mickey Cohen, and Charles " Lucky " Luciano, one of the future's most powerful Mob bosses.

On Genovese's advice, Gambino told Anastasia that they were not making enough money from the casinos at Cuba, which belonged to Meyer Lansky.

Sinatra would later testify about this in court, but announced that he didn't know any Carlo Gambino, but it got to a point where he had to explain why he was attending the Havana Conference in Cuba in 1946, showing up with $ 2, 000, 000 in a silver suitcase and a picture that showed Sinatra, Charles " Lucky " Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Albert " The Executioner " Anastasia, and Carlo Gambino having a drink by a pool.

He was, along with his associate Meyer Lansky, instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States.

It was during this time Luciano met Jewish teenager Meyer Lansky, his future business partner.

However, Meyer Lansky persuaded Luciano to keep the practice, arguing that young people needed rituals to promote obedience to the family.

Because Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel were non-Italians, neither man could hold official positions within any Cosa Nostra family.

Knowing that the Cosa Nostra controlled the waterfront, the Navy contacted Meyer Lansky about a deal with Luciano.

For being the Mafia hegemon in the era of landmark mobsters like Albert Anastasia, Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Tommy Lucchese, Carlo Gambino, and Vito Genovese, all of whom he led, Luciano is considered by many to have been the most powerful American Mafia boss of all time.

Lansky was born Meyer Suchowljansky in Grodno ( then in Russia, now in Belarus ), to a Jewish family who experienced pogroms.

In the 1930s, Meyer Lansky and his gang claimed to have stepped outside their usual criminal activities to break up rallies held by Nazi sympathizers.

" Meyer Lansky doesn't own property.

* Maximilian " Max " Bercovicz, the gangster played by James Woods in Sergio Leone's opus Once Upon A Time In America was inspired by Meyer Lansky.

* Meyer Lansky is portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the 2005 film The Lost City.

Janssen was born as David Harold Meyer in Naponee, Nebraska to Harold Edward Meyer, a banker ( May 12, 1906 – November 4, 1990 ) and Berniece Graf ( May 11, 1910 – November 26, 1995 ).

Her father, John W. Bullock ( born 1925 ), was a United States Army employee and part-time voice coach from Birmingham, Alabama, and her mother, Helga D. Meyer ( 1942 – 2000 ), was a German opera singer and voice teacher.

Born in Frankfurt, Anton de Bary was one of ten children born to physician August Theodor de Bary ( 1802 – 1873 ) and Emilie Meyer de Bary.

Meyer was born in Göttingen, the son of a government official.

* Sergeant Dakota Meyer ( b. 1988 ), born and initially educated in Adair County, received the Medal of Honor in 2011 for his actions in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in 2009

* Salim ( Sandy ) Bonnor Lewis, born January 27, 1939, moved with his family to Essex in 1980, an American investment banker, arbitrageur, merger-maker, founded in 1980 a general partnership, S B Lewis & Company, a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, originated and closed, negotiating for both sides, the tax free merger of American Express and Shearson Loeb Rhodes, received a presidential pardon from President Clinton on his last day in office-the only pardon of an NYSE member firm chief executive in Wall Street history, see http :// sblewis. net, known for litigation that forced the Adirondack Park Agency to contribute $ 71, 690. 28 to the farm's litigation cost for government behavior deemed unworthy by Acting Supreme Court Judge Richard B. Meyer in a series of decisions now bedrock in New York State law that allows a farm within the park to build to house farm workers without Park Agency involvement.

* Catherine Hardwicke, an American film director who directed the popular vampire film Twilight, based on the book by Stephenie Meyer, was born in Cameron.

At that time, the city zoned the area East of 48th W, south of 194th SW, and west of the new freeway for commercial development, and the current city center area was born, with the construction of the Fred Meyer store, a new hotel called the Landmark ( now La Quinta Inns & Suites ) on 200th and 44th, and other commercial developments.

Meyer was born in Zürich.

Benjamin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, the fifth of seven sons of the wealthy mining magnate Meyer Guggenheim ( 1828 – 1905 ) and Barbara Myers ( 1834 – 1900 ).

Russ Meyer was born in San Leandro, California to William Arthur Meyer, a German-American Oakland police officer, and his wife Lydia Lucinda Hauck.

His parents divorced shortly after he was born, and Meyer was to have virtually no contact with his father during his life.

Robert K. Merton was born on July 4, 1910, in Philadelphia as Meyer Robert Schkolnick in a family of Yiddish speaking Russian Jews that had immigrated to the United States in 1904.

Abraham ( or Abe ) Rothschild ( born 1853 in Cincinnati, Ohio ) was the son of Meyer Rothschild, a Cincinnati jeweler.

Joan Rivers was born Joan Alexandra Molinsky in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants Beatrice ( née Grushman ; January 6, 1906 – October 1975 ) and Meyer C. Molinsky ( December 7, 1900 – January 1985 ).

Meyer was born in Paris and educated at the Lycée Louis le Grand and the École des Chartes, specializing in the Romance languages.

Bertrand Meyer (; ; born 1950 in France ) is an academic, author, and consultant in the field of computer languages.

Albert Meyer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Peter James and Mathilda ( née Thelen ) Meyer, who were German immigrants.

Corinna May ( born 10 October 1970 in Bremen, Germany as Corinna Meyer ) is a blind singer from Germany.